HONESTY-BUG

What do you do when you find out people beside you turn dishonest. Normal reaction to any person smitten by 'honesty-bug' would be to dump dishonest for the larger good of life. Having been on both sides everyone once in a while dumps dishonest people and gets dumped by people when (s)/he acts treasonous.

It acts as a part of life to set a value system which later gets integrated after the pleasures and pains of either sides. In today's time when personal and professional life has crossed across the boundaries, life's larger lessons in personal life do appear in professional life too as difficult tests, where humanity and professional ethics and duties start contradicting each other. In a modern Indian value system it becomes difficult to be harsh with dishonest people, simply for the reason, profession is livelihood and may be the only source of support for the family.

Nonetheless learning to take harsh steps as a measure of keeping honesty and integrity in the profession, sometimes highly emotional side for fellow humans need to be kept aside. Fear does exist in both right and wrong actions irrespective of the purpose they serve. Still people under circumstances fall trap, sometimes in hapless condition and few other times due to their greed, to immoral and unethical behavior. In any case they have to face the consequences as every action will bring out some reaction is the philosophy governing right and wrongs in the society.

One might not want to take away something from somebody but when (s)/he has to act as a pawn without any choice of his/her, one feels guilty. Guilty for the suffering which bearer has to go through as a result of loss. How many times does it happens with almost all of us that we didn't want to hurt somebody but our duties leave little choice for us.

Freedom is not all the times free. Every freedom found outside a human soul takes away something without acknowledging the looser. It becomes too late until one becomes captive in his/her own freedom to realise the loss.

The stress laid for strong value and ethic system in past served the purpose of freeing individuals from making choices individualistic rather in a group. With the increased autonomy and economic freedom values and ethics have taken a dent somewhere which has affected the society bottom to top. Indian system and society is smart enough to realise it at personal level, but laid back to take any action for improvement and strengthening of value and ethics.

Scams and corruption which people talk about is planted in their heads and when the learned and elite of the society which are so called powerful enough to rule are engrossed into it, impact trickles down affecting the bottom of pyramid (which if shakes will take down everything from top to bottom!!!).